Sure, but is there an actual reason to be switching?

Uutils doesn’t seem to be an evolution of coreutils, but a functional clone. What advantage do we get with that?

Note: I have pull requests against uutils so I’m by no means anti-Rust or against the project. But I personally would not replace coreutils with it.

Why at the same time? Can’t it be done over a week?

Or maybe the resignation was a wake-up call that resulted in systemic changes.

I have no idea what the actual case is, but there are often multiple possible causes.